Legal Officer at International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Key Responsibilities

Contracts management and research support

• Review and approve institutional contracts to ensure full compliance with ILRI and CGIAR policies and applicable legal requirements.
• Oversee the sign-off and dispatch process for institutional contracts ensuring that complete and fully signed contracts are in place and properly filed as required.
• Manage the legal unit’s contracts repository ensuring the folders are updated with current documents and properly organized for ease of retrieval of documents.
• Review due diligence checklists required by donors and/or partners for completeness and provide research teams with required information and documents to facilitate this process.

Legal and corporate compliance

• Maintain and update databases of key ILRI and Kapiti institutional/legal documents especially in relation to assets records, policies, procedures, legal disputes, lab notebooks and other institutional records (including hosting arrangements).
• Monitor and ensure timely and accurate updates and renewals of all hosting services agreements.
• Monitor and follow up on the status of legal cases and claims.
• Conduct research on emerging legal issues and advise management on any related legal risks and/or required measures to ensure full compliance.
• Prepare training materials for ILRI staff and management on emerging legal issues.
• Manage certification, notarization and authentication of documents.
•  Manage requests for templates, documents, clarifications, and other queries to the legal unit ensuring that the unit’s SharePoint materials are updated as required.
• Perform other tasks as may be assigned from time to time to assist the Legal Unit achieve its mandate.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in law.
• Relevant professional certification.
• An advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
• Six years’ relevant experience.
• Post-admission experience in an in-house legal team in a large corporate, an international organization or a busy law firm handling contracts, litigation and human resources related matters.
• Demonstrate good grasp of relevant laws including but not limited to laws governing International non-profit organizations; Kenyan Law and the Constitution of Kenya 2010; Intellectual Property Law and related International Laws and Treaties, Labour Laws and Corporate governance.